CROSSWORD

Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.

EASY CLUES

ACROSS 1 Light wood (5) 6 Book of maps (5) 9 Embers (7) 10 Protect (5) 11 Opposite of heads (5) 12 Lowest point (5) 13 Formal discussions (7) 15 Pitch (3) 17 Minute particle (4) 18 Roof of the mouth (6) 19 Pigmeat (5) 20 Whimper peevishly (6) 22 Tablet (4) 24 Affirmative (3) 25 Seemly behaviour (7) 26 Melodies (5) 27 Loses colour (5) 28 Act of being born (5) 29 Edgy (7) 30 Chairs (5) 31 One who steals (5)

DOWN

2 Charm (6) 3 Yell (6) 4 Assist (3) 5 Notions (5) 6 Craftsman (7) 7 A tyrant (4) 8 At sea (6) 12 Katmandu is here (5) 13 Plant (5) 14 Boy’s name (5) 15 Long-snouted mammal (5) 16 Kingdom (5) 18 Prods (5) 19 Confuses (7) 21 Nullify (6) 22 Buff (6) 23 Reflected light (6) 25 Rummage (5) 26 Canvas shelter (4) 28 However (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Hit out, getting a century and a half (5) 6 Roguish letters to a politician (5) 9 Like the energy of an eccentric uncle with a warm heart (7) 10 Such letters do not form such mail (5) 11 Drive for a short time in open country (5) 12 Soldiers love to be in semi-tropical surroundings! (5) 13 Land of men in song (7) 15 Determined to assume a certain hardness (3) 17 Guide to a poetic area at Land’s End (4) 18 Is able to join a woman abroad (6) 19 Like the glass uncle Arthur has (5) 20 Girl with a heart of stone (6) 22 A sporting warning, of course (4) 24 Are such gloves juvenile? (3) 25 Piece of plaid tied in a knot or intertwined (7) 26 German town orchestra (5) 27 One of a pack for Jack to back (5) 28 In short, the governmental head named Barnaby (5) 29 A stick for a dog (7) 30 Wat, whose tyre burst going round a corner (5) 31 Blue boy? (5)

DOWN

2 House in real disorder somewhere in Pakistan (6) 3 Joined the club (6) 4 It largely has an alcoholic content (3) 5 She records a century by a famous batsman (5) 6 Source of Russian tea (7) 7 Cut with a whip (4) 8 Suggested by a low fellow (6) 12 In extremes of tragedy, she’s sick at heart (5) 13 Smart, but maybe he could lose a kilo (5) 14 Half the team get angry about being beaten (5) 15 Shoe, for a time like a spanner in the works? (5) 16 Subdued, thanks to me, on the first of December (5) 18 A ropy kind of car? (5) 19 Reactor designer? (7) 21 It’s from hilarity that this name is derived (6) 22 Reckon to keep in shape (6) 23 West Indian pop (6) 25 It flies down a quiet country road (5) 26 Trust the flight will have a safe conclusion (4) 28 Intrepid traveller? (3)